Warning: Spoilers ahead for Episode 6 of The Amazing Race Canada!

Well, after winning last week's leg, I suppose I couldn't reasonably demand that the cousins win again.

Could I?

Sacha and Sébastien Régnier didn't make it three first-place finishes this week, but they turned in another strong performance, finishing fourth as The Amazing Race Canada raced through Scarborough and Markham, Ontario.

And at this point, I'm feeling pretty comfortable about my decision to adopt them.

Straight Back to Racing

There wasn't much time to celebrate last week's victory in Peterborough and the Kawarthas.

The seven remaining teams travelled to Toronto, where they headed to Union Station and then hopped aboard GO Transit for Scarborough.

The first big decision was a Detour: Sync or Sum.

In Sync, teams had to perform a synchronized diving routine at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre.

In Sum, racers faced a very different challenge: memorize ten dim sum orders and correctly serve them to Cantonese-speaking customers.

It was one of those classic Amazing Race choices;  physical coordination or memory and language.

Pick your poison.

And Then Came Ping-Pong

After the Detour, everybody headed to Markham for the first Face Off of the season.

Table tennis.

Two teams played against each other, with the first to 11 points moving on. The losing team had to stay and face the next team to arrive.

And this is where things went sideways for Chayla and Chyana.

The sisters had been doing extremely well. In fact, they absolutely nailed the dim sum challenge and looked like they were heading toward one of their best finishes of the race.

Then they met a ping-pong table.

Apparently table tennis is not among their many talents.

They lost. And lost again.

And again.

It was painful.

Eventually they escaped, but a challenge that had nothing to do with how well they'd raced the rest of the day dropped them from near the front of the pack to the back.

I've never been a huge fan of the Face Off for exactly this reason. One particular skill can wipe out an otherwise excellent leg,  and the last team standing doesn't even get another opponent. They simply have to sit and watch an hourglass.

Still, Chayla and Chyana weren't finished yet.

Lights, Camera... Christmas?

Next came a Roadblock in Unionville.

One racer from each team had to perform a scene from a Christmas romantic comedy.

Yes.

After synchronized diving, Cantonese dim sum orders and competitive ping-pong, naturally the next logical step was a Hallmark movie.

This is The Amazing Race Canada. Just go with it.

The task gave the sisters an opportunity to claw back some of the time they'd lost, while the cousins continued doing what they've done remarkably well throughout this race: staying calm, staying competitive and avoiding disaster.

Cousin Watch

Sacha and Sébastien ultimately reached the Pit Stop in fourth place.

I'll take it.

Look at their record so far:

4th ... tied 2nd ... 1st ... 6th ... 1st ... 4th.

That's an awfully consistent race.

They've now won two legs and have finished in the top four in five of the first six legs.

So while this wasn't another Cousin Victory Lap, there was also absolutely nothing here to worry me.

The boys are still very much in this thing.

And the Sisters Survive

Chayla and Chyana reached the mat in fifth place, which frankly felt like a victory after the table-tennis disaster.

I've been cheering for them alongside the Régniers all season, and I was particularly happy to see them recover.

But then came the surprise.

There was no elimination.

In fact, there wasn't even a normal Pit Stop.

Jon Montgomery,  joined at the mat by Canadian Olympic sprinting champion Andre De Grasse, told the racers they were still racing.

No rest.

No reset.

Just grab the next clue and keep going.

Tina and Liz finished first, followed by Ameen and Surria, Michele and Matteo, Sacha and Sébastien, Chayla and Chyana, Eamon and Bec, and Filipe and Clara.

Seven teams remain.

And two of them are still the teams I'm cheering for.

The Métis cousins are alive and well.

The sisters survived the Great Ping-Pong Catastrophe of 2026.

And Cousin Watch continues.

See you next week.